…it’s weird being at a conference by yourself, with like 1500 other people. During McLaren’s session, I asked God to help me connect with who I should connect with. So I walk out of the session at the end, and almost bump into Bob Hyatt. We’re having coffee on Friday. God is good!

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Elaine and I are in San Diego for a few days…me to attend the National Pastor’s Convention, E to celebrate her birthday early by reading and relaxing and sitting by the pool.
I’ll try to blog some about what I’m hearing and thinking.

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…but this beats workin’ any day. Up in Washington visiting my family for an early Christmas, and my brother took me way out on the Olympic Penninsula to fish for steelhead on the Bogachiel River. He planned where to go, gave me [...]

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Tonight we went out with Marta and Andy: great Italian food, a serendipitous meeting with Wendy Clark Goodwin (who invited us to a concert she was giving at Borders…you can hear them yourself at NFC Dec. 17)…but most of all, outstanding conversation.
Marta and Andy, over the last couple of years, have felt God’s leading to [...]

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Contacts…unveil our daughter’s eyes

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Contacts…

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Last night I was on a train for a couple of hours (too long a story). With two seats facing two seats, I was knee to knee to knee to knee with a fifty-something man who was working hard on a conversation with the man sitting next to him, a college student from Japan. It [...]

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I’m grateful today for the team of people I work with, and for the fact that God is faithful.
I was reminded today that faithfulness and integrity are not always rewarded in the world we live in, as I listened to a man share his anguish.
I’m sad that I saw my children today (awake) for [...]

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Here’s a list of topics I considered writing about, but rejected for lack of anything worthwhile coming together into coherent sentences: 9/11, StrengthsFinder, “an open letter from a pastor to churches everywhere”, why I’m a Quaker, and whether the Oregon Ducks will be able to play their “A” game and beat the Sooners on Saturday.
Instead, [...]

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Usually, I write these posts for Barclay Press the night before. But last night, a phone call took me to the hospital. So I write this without much to look back upon, and a whole day ahead.
As our youngest was getting ready for bed last night, Elaine told me she had been up early that [...]

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…that I am not a political conservative, if this video defines conservatism. I just felt it was time to admit that publicly.

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